“Now, of my threescore years and ten,
Twenty will not come again,
And take from seventy springs a score,
It only leaves me fifty more.

And since to look at things in bloom
Fifty springs are little room,
About the woodlands I will go
To see the cherry hung with snow.”

No. 2, st. 2-3.
A Shropshire Lad (1896)

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English classical scholar and poet 1859–1936

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